Running Aruba Fabric Composer in the VMware vSphere Client

 

Aruba Fabric Composer can be run as a window in the VMware Virtualization Solutions. Copyright of VMware Inc. vSphere Virtualization Solutions. Copyright of VMware Inc. Client UI. Once in the VMware vSphere Client UI, after configuring the Aruba Fabric Composer for the first time, you will have all of the viewing and configuration features available in the Aruba Fabric Composer.

Updating Aruba Fabric Composer Certificate and Authentication in vSphere

Before you can run Aruba Fabric Composer from a vSphere window, from the VMware vSphere UI, you need to configure Aruba Fabric Composer Certificates and Authentication as described in the below procedure.

 

This procedure assumes that you have already created a VMware vSphere configuration as described in Adding a VMware vSphere Integration and registered the VMware vSphere plug-in as described in Registering the vSphere Plug-in with VMware.

  1. In the VMware vSphere UI, select Administration > Aruba Fabric Composer > Settings.
  2. In the Certificates tab, create a certificate by entering in the Aruba Fabric Composer URL and clicking +ADD CERTIFICATE.
  3. In the Authentication tab, verify the Hostname and Username used to connect to Aruba Fabric Composer.
  4. If this is an initial configuration or if an update is needed, click Update Settings.
  5. Enter the login credentials that have been previously configured to log in to Aruba Fabric Composer. These credentials only enable the Aruba Fabric Composer Plug-in to log in to Aruba Fabric Composer; they do not change the actual credentials. These settings are:
    • Hostname: Enter the fully qualified host name or IP address of Aruba Fabric Composer.
    • Username: Enter the username to connect to Aruba Fabric Composer. The user of an Aruba Fabric Composer account must be an administrator; the default administrator account is admin.
    • Password: Enter the password to connect to Aruba Fabric Composer.
  6. Save the settings.
  7. You can now open the Aruba Fabric Composer vSphere plug-in as described in the next section.

Opening the Aruba Fabric Composer vSphere Plug-in

The Aruba Fabric Composer plug-in places no browser restrictions beyond browsers approved by VMware.

 

In the VMware vSphere UI, open the Aruba Fabric Composer plug-in. For example:

  • In the VMware vSphere Client, select Menu > Aruba Fabric Composer, or
  • In the VMware vSphere Client, click vSphere Client and in the left-hand menu bar click Aruba Fabric Composer.

The Aruba Fabric Composer Home page opens in the vSphere Workspace (content area).

Leaving the Aruba Fabric Composer window will terminate the Aruba Fabric Composer session without retaining unsaved changes; you will lose unsaved changes.

The following message in VMware vSphere indicates that the certificate and credential are not configured, or Aruba Fabric Composer is not reachable. Verify the Aruba Fabric Composer certificate and authentication as described above.

Aruba Fabric Composer settings are not valid or not configured. Navigate to the Administration option and then select Aruba Fabric Composer > Settings.